Volunteer day

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A volunteer day offers interested parties the chance once, briefly and voluntarily without further obligation for charity volunteer to get involved. Participation and getting to know the volunteer projects is the main focus on one day. Associations, initiatives and non-profit organizations develop hands-on activities that show the variety of engagement opportunities. This form of engagement is particularly suitable for those interested in volunteering who do not have time for permanent engagement in everyday life. In more than 100 cities and municipalities in Germany, between 100 and 6000 people take part each year, depending on the region. In addition to regional volunteer days, companies and associations organize internal days of action to promote volunteering.

history

The idea of ​​the volunteer days comes from the USA, where they are known as the day of caring or make a difference day . In Germany, the first volunteer day took place in 2001 in Berlin on the occasion of the International Year of Volunteers on the initiative of the Berlin State Volunteer Agency, meeting point helpfulness . The following year, Berlin, Kassel and Hamburg held a volunteer day. From 2003 on, the idea spread nationwide. Back then, Bavaria called for a nationwide volunteer day, so that smaller cities and districts also took part for the first time.

Examples in the federal states

  • Cross-border: Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  • Bavaria: District of Cham (since 2003), Augsburg (since 2003)
  • Berlin (since 2001)
  • Brandenburg: Eberswalde (since 2009)
  • Bremen (since 2004)
  • Hamburg (since 2002)
  • Hesse: Kassel (2002), Wiesbaden (since 2008)
  • Lower Saxony: Hildesheim (since 2006), Osnabrück (since 2008)
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: Cologne (since 2002)
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: Wehr (2008)
  • Saxony-Anhalt: Halle (since 2005)
  • Thuringia: Weimar (since 2006), Jena (since 2004)

literature

  • Anneke lattice man: manual volunteer day. published as part of the state honorary office campaign Hessen, Wiesbaden 2006. (PDF; 450 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 companies sign engagement charter.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ). Retrieved June 4, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.initiative-zivilengagement.de  
  2. ↑ Amory Burchard: Volunteer Day: Moving Together. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 14, 2001. Retrieved June 4, 2010
  3. ↑ Annual report 2003.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the lagfa Bavaria. (PDF; 327 kB) Accessed June 4, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lagfa.de  
  4. ↑ Volunteers' Day of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region in Review ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: wir-schaffen-was.de Retrieved on January 12, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wir-schaffen-was.de
  5. ↑ Volunteer Day campaign. ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the volunteer center Augsburg. Retrieved June 4, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freiwilligen-zentrum-augsburg.de
  6. ↑ Paritätische Akademie : TOOLBUCH Handout for volunteer management - work with volunteers.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Retrieved June 4, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.forum-seniorenarbeit.de  
  7. ↑ Sven Klamann: 27 projects to participate. on the website of the Märkische Oderzeitung, May 17, 2010. Accessed June 4, 2010
  8. ^ Marianne Kreikenbom: Small association with big goals. ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt. May 12, 2010.
  9. ↑ Engaged for a day. on: osnabrück.de (PDF; 6.6 MB). Retrieved June 4, 2010